Helmut Herbolsheimer

Helmut Herbolsheimer
Personnel
birthday	May 18, 1925
place of birth	Fürth ,  German Empire
position	Right winger
Juniors
Years	station
0000-1940	FSV 83 Gostenhof
1940-1942	1. FC Nuremberg
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1942-1956	1. FC Nuremberg	264 (89)
1956-1957	Viktoria Aschaffenburg	10 0(2)
1957-1959	FSV 83 Gostenhof
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
	1. FC Nürnberg amateurs
	VfB Bayreuth
	FC Schnaittach
	ATV Nuremberg
1 Only league games are given.

Helmut Herbolsheimer (born May 18, 1925 in Fürth ) is a former German football player .

Player career

Helmut Herbolsheimer was a right-winger on the 1. FC Nürnberg team , which won the first soccer championship after the Second World War with the German championship in 1948 .

Herbolsheimer was one of the technically strongest players at 1. FC Nürnberg. On the right side of attack, he formed a dangerous duo with his childhood friend Max Morlock for more than a decade. The magazine of the West German Football Association once described the son of an innkeeper family in the following words:

"When it comes to fascinating technique and pure ball art, direct play and tricky dribbling, deception and curves, Herbolsheimer, Germany's best right winger, is a shining example"

- Bausenwein et al. 2006, p. 398

The playfulness led to a certain stubbornness at Herbolsheimer's goal, which he himself described with the words "It's nicer to hit the crossbar than in the goal." In the final of the German championship in 1948, he demonstrated this indecision in front of the goal, when he played around the Kaiserslautern goalkeeper Willi Hölz in the 38th minute, but then pushed the ball past the empty goal and thus missed the decisive 3-0.

In addition to his lack of physical robustness, such scenes probably contributed to the fact that despite the great praise he was denied a call to the national team .

Herbolsheimer made his debut in the first team of the club in 1942, to which he remained loyal until 1956. In total, he completed 552 games for the first team. However, he almost switched to FC St. Pauli together with Robert Gebhardt in 1950 . But while Gebhardt also had a successful career in northern Germany, Herbolsheimer stayed in Nuremberg despite the signed contract. Because on the trip to Hamburg , shortly before Würzburg, he is said to have been homesick and prompted to turn back.

In 1956 he finally moved to Viktoria Aschaffenburg for a year and played ten more times in the Oberliga Süd. But even here he returned to Nuremberg after a year to devote himself to his Toto Lotto acceptance point.

Coaching career

After his playing career, Herbolsheimer trained the amateurs of 1. FC Nürnberg and later VfB Bayreuth , FC Schnaittach and ATV Nürnberg.

particularities

A special characteristic of Helmut Herbolsheimer was his sense of humor. Together with Georg Kennemann , he was responsible for the atmosphere within the 1. FC Nürnberg soccer team. This quality did not remain a mere characteristic. After the end of his playing career, Herbolsheimer and his partner Günther Heimbucher appeared as a comedian in the duo "Die Zwetschgenmännla" (Franconian for plum potato ) on Franconia's stages.

successes

1 × German champion ( 1948 )

literature

• Herbolsheimer, Helmut. In: Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 143.

swell

1. ↑ ^{a b} Christoph Bausenwein, Bernd Siegler, Harald Kaiser: The legend of the club. The history of 1. FC Nürnberg , Göttingen: Verlag Die Werkstatt, 2006, p. 398f. ISBN 3-89533-536-3
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Herbolsheimer, Helmut. In: Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 143.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Helmut Herbolsheimer , profile at glubberer.de .